Chapter 9 : Brotherly love
Luana opened her eyes slightly, adjusting to the bright light of the sun that shined in her room that early morning. The sun was just rising, causing the girl knight to realize it was still early in the morning.
Slowly, the young girl stood up from her bed, yawning and rubbing the sleep out of her brown eyes. A sharp pain at her waist, she winced in pain. Slowly, Luana lifted her shirt up, revealing a red spot on the bandage around her.
Luana sighed and stood up as slowly as she could, trying not to make the wound bleed even more. In her mind, she wished Lancelot was with her to tell her everything would be alright. But she knew that nothing was as it looked like.
The saxons were coming closer to the fortress and Arthur knew that they had to get the people to leave as soon as possible. But Luana was only retrieving her memories back one by one.
She frowned, collecting the memories she had already discovered on her way with the knights. She remembered her family in Sarmatia, her loving brother. Meeting the other knights and Arthur for the first time.
Being discovered as a girl instead of a boy. That memory always made her laugh as she remembered the looks on the knight's faces. She remembered...some of their missions before she was captured.
Luana remembered waking up at the Roman estate, not knowing who she was. Everything in her mind was such a mess but slowly and patiently, she could get out of the memories that were lost.
The brown haired girl also knew that being weak wasn't a good quality when you were a knight. She grimaced as she felt the pain at her waist coming from the wound. Slowly, Luana shook the thoughts of being weak out of her mind and reminded herself that she was a knight.
She walked towards the big grass fields behind the rooms, enjoying the early sunrays on her face. She bit her lip, hoping that the pain at her waist wouldn't grow any worse than it already was.
"Where do you think you're going this early?" Tristans deep voice alerted Luana, making her to turn around rapidly. Her eyes widened as she saw her older brother looking at her with his arms crossed in front of him. Luana managed a small smile at him, trying to look like she wasn't planning anything.
"Nothing." She smiled sweetly, crossing her fingers behind her back.
Tristan raised an eyebrow at his little sister and smirked briefly before he took her in his arms. Luana winced briefly as she felt another pain through her wound. Tristan pulled back from the hug, frowning at her.
His eyes darted to the place where Luana's wound was, lifting her shirt up immediately. The young girl pushed her shirt down, not wanting her brother to see the blood on the bandage. Tristan looked at her, his eyes filled with worry as he looked at the wound in silence.
"Honestly It's nothing." She protested, trying to get her shirt over the bandage again. Tristan slowly let her shirt drop back over the wound, hiding it before he took her hand and led her towards the rooms again.
Luana sighed and let her small body be leaded away by her older brother. They entered his room.
Darkness was ruling over the sun as the curtains stayed closed for the whole day. Luana frowned, finally remembering that her brother loved the silence that the darkness brought him.
"Honestly Tristan, you're fretting to much." Luana slapped Tristan's hands away as he tried to help her sit down on his bed. Tristan showed her a small smile on his lips before he grabbed a new bandage for her wound.
Luana rolled her eyes as he looked up from her wound with a disapprouving gaze.
"Don't look at me like that." She complained as he rebandaged her waist. Her older brother chuckled a little as the girl winced in pain when he briefly touched the open wound.
The female knight raised an eyebrow at Tristan while she crossed her arms in front of her chest, looking at him with a questionable look.
"What? You enjoy seeing me in pain?"
"It's a way to keep you from doing something stupid."
Luana made a small 'o' with her mouth as Tristan finished with the bandage. She slowly covered the bandage with her shirt again and took Tristan's hand to get up from the low bed.
"I thought you didn't need any help." He smirked. Luana groaned and shook her head, muttering something under her breath that Tristan couldn't understand. The scout took his sister close to him and gave her a soft kiss on her forehead before walking with her towards the green fields behind the fortress.
X"I didn't expect her to be fighting already."
"She couldn't sit still long enough so I let her." Tristan took a bite from his fresh apple, ignoring the smile Arthur gave his scout.
Lancelot blocked another attack coming from the much smaller girl and looked surprised she could already put so much force behind her attack. Luana took a deep breath and attacked the first knight once more.
The dark haired night was sweating in the hot midday sun but Luana didn't show any sign of giving up. Arthur watched the two spin around each other before trying to hit the other with more force than the previous hit.
"How is her condition?" He asked, not knowing how much the wound had healed already since the attack. Tristan looked at his sister trying to attack Lancelot again before replying to his commander.
"Recovering. The wound has stopped bleeding severly like it did so many days ago."
Arthur nodded, still wondering if the girl knight should be already fighting in her condition. He could see that she was getting tired and that Lancelot wouldn't give up so easily. However, no matter how tired she was, that didn't stop her from clashing her swords with Lancelot's in an attack.
The sound of metal meeting each other in short moments echoed over the green field, however, the sounds were still not loud enough to tower over the noises coming from the city behind them.
"Lancelot! Don't hold back!" Tristan yelled to the fighting couple, "She can handle it!"
The dark haired knight kept his eyes on the small girl standing in front of him, nodding as a response to Tristan. His hands grabbed the handles of the twin blades thight as he raised one of his swords.
Luana smirked, blocking the unexpected attack just inches from her wound.
"That..was a close one." Luana whispered softly, pulling away from Lancelot as he sheetened the unused sword.
"Indeed." Lancelot nodded. His eyes scanned the green field, looking for some shadow while sweat covered his brow.
His brown eyes smiled as his feet brought him to the large tree in the middle of the field. Luana waited for a few moments to gain her breath before she decided that she shouldn't be standing on her feet in the burning sun.
Slowly, Luana sat down. She winced a little as the wound stung but Lancelot didn't notice, leaning against the tree with his eyes closed.
"Giving up already?" Luana smirked at him, trying to forget the brief pain that went through her body. Her brown eyes closed, enjoying a soft breeze that went through her hair and touched her face.
"Just five minutes break. That's all."
"Sure, you're just afraid you'll lose to a girl."
Lancelot opened his eyes and looked at Luana who copied his previous position with a smile on her lips. He sat up, looking at the one girl he loved relaxing in the shadow of the tree. Lancelot smiled a little before playing a huge grin on his lips.
Luana opened her eyes just in time to see Lancelot attack her. Her mouth opened to scream, but the laughter and the wriggling of her body to get free from his grasp made her fail in the attempt.
She felt Lancelot sitting on her legs and used the last bit of strenght she had left to turn the positions around. Lancelot fell backwards, seeing Luana's face hoover above him with some of her long brown hair hanging in front of her eyes.
The knight smirked before circling his arms around her tiny waist, pulling her closer to his body that caused their lips to finally meet in a soft kiss. Luana's eyes widened before she relaxed in Lancelot's arms and deepened the kiss.
Tristan took a bite from his apple, looking at the two figures that were Luana and Lancelot. The scout shook his head and turned away from the sight.
"Finally." He softly muttered under his breath as he took another bite of his green apple, walking into the city laying behind the thick walls of the fortresss.
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